Top 100 Menu Quotes
#1. The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.
Frank Muir
#2. In Spain, you can go into any tapas bar, and you'll see anchovies all over the menu.
Jose Andres
#3. I love creating new things. It's difficult to be creative once a restaurant's open. People want the same dishes. For me, the creativity is in opening a new place and starting a new menu.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#4. In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.
Parker Young
#5. Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,
these are some of our astronomers.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. When I was very young, I got my first opportunity in television with a show called 'Surfing the Menu,' and it was myself and another buddy. We traveled around Australia and we surfed and cooked and drank too much wine. And we had a lot of fun.
Curtis Stone
#7. And on the menu, it says "bill of fare". They won't use "menu", you see, because it was French.
Robert Galbraith
#8. In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!
Hunter Hayes
#9. We have a name," said Jace. "Magnes B-"
"Shut up." Alec hissed, thwacking Jace with his closed menu. Jace looked injured.
"Jesus," he rubbed his arm. "What's your problem?
Cassandra Clare
#10. In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help.
Neel Mukherjee
#11. Kiernan reaches to pull out my chair, but I beat him to it and then nudge the chair across from me out about six inches with my foot.
He pulls it out the rest of the way and says, "Thank you, dearest," in a droll tone before retreating behind the menu.
Rysa Walker
#12. I don't believe you need to shout out the farm, the name of the chicken, or all that other bullshit on the menu because it should simply be the standard that we serve all-natural meat.
Eddie Huang
#13. But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.
A.S. King
#14. It had long been accepted that if a species put mankind on its food-chain menu the species would be extinct before long.
Dan Simmons
#15. Might you show me how to project a schematic of the entire inner solar system? I appear to be unable to zoom out from the immediate neighbourhood of Paladin." "Access that sub-menu, then select the logarithmic scale factor," Nissa said. "Thank you - I should have seen that." The
Alastair Reynolds
#16. I don't know, maybe imminent peril made him feel more alive somehow, for the same reason zombies are carnivores with only one item on the menu. You never heard of undead vegetarians. Where's the challenge in attacking a plate of asparagus?
Rick Yancey
#17. We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
Terence McKenna
#18. Birth is to celebrate, death is to mourn - Menu 8 (Death: Loved Ones!)
Santosh Avvannavar
#19. And can you get this girl something with a laxative effect?" I add to the waitress, refusing to spare Sophie a glance as I slide my menu back into place. "My treat. I just can't stand to see someone so full of shit, you know? Especially when her boyfriend keeps feeding her more of it.
Dahlia Adler
#20. I won't say my nutrition is perfect. If I'm at a restaurant and there's fresh pasta on the menu, I'm going to order it. At home, though, I avoid grains and do a lot of the cooking to control what our family eats.
Gabrielle Reece
#21. You'll be reading the breakfast menu without me before you know it.
Hmm, maybe I don't want to learn French
Stephanie Perkins
#22. Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?
Victoria Moran
#23. Jack ordered a bottle of pinot noir, and they perused the menu while they chatted. "So you were at Georgetown." Melanie said it as a statement.
Tom Clancy
#24. The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu.
Junior Seau
#25. There's nothing more I love than McDonald's dollar menu. With just the change I find between my couch cushions, I can eat something with the nutritional value of a couch cushion.
Stephen Colbert
#26. Perhaps the whole world is actually a banquet, to which every living thing is invited. First you come as guests: then eventually you're on the menu.
David Suzuki
#27. We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
Michelle Obama
#28. Finn grabbed a menu and started scanning through the choices, even though he'd memorized them all long ago.
Jennifer Estep
#29. The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.
Jason Chaffetz
#30. When you drill down and see the forces that are shaping nations, you can see that the menu from which they choose is limited.
George Friedman
#31. That's when she discovered that Todd had improvised on the menu she had made up.
Robin Jones Gunn
#32. Adorable. I had never seen grown women attack each other so fluently. No one tossed out adorable at Simone. No one declined Chef's tasting menu. And yet Simone wasn't stunned - she was braced. I realized that they were women who knew dangerous things about each other.
Stephanie Danler
#33. It was your idea. Only fair that if we get attacked, you should be first on their menu
Darren Shan
#34. Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup. That's all it needs! Maybe a saucer underneath the cup - that's it.
Denis Leary
#35. I let her ask the questions. Predictably, the main questions she had were 'What?' and 'Am I going to be on the menu?' Oh, and 'What?
Lia Habel
#36. Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in any language.
Richelle Mead
#37. I'm going to grab a cheeseburger," I told Patch. "Want anything?"
"Nothing on the menu."
I smiled. "Why, Patch, are you flirting with me?
Becca Fitzpatrick
#38. He looked at the menu dreamily. 'God, it's good to be eating in France again.'
'It's good to be eating again,' said Brenda.
'But it's nice to resume the habit in France.'
'That's true of so many habits.
Jack Iams
#39. Shouldn't a three-course meal be 90 minutes? Do you know how hard you have to edit your menu to pull that off? Twenty-seven minutes. That's the average meal at Jiro's in Tokyo.
David Chang
#40. I like a restaurant called Bruci, and there's some really nice people who work there and good food. They change their menu a lot, so maybe that's what keeps me coming back. I never know what I'm going to get.
Paul Dano
#41. Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Rosalind Russell
#42. How did we ever get to a point where we need investigative journalists to tell us where our food comes from and nutritionists to determine the dinner menu?
Michael Pollan
#43. I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.
Eric Ripert
#44. I've never seen Salisbury steak on a restaurant menu. It's only in frozen dinners. Is there something we should know about that? What IS Salisbury steak anyway? And where do they hunt or harvest the salisburies?
Kelli Jae Baeli
#45. Music licensing is a strange business to navigate, and all kinds of little things can drive a price up or down. It's completely fluid, it constantly changes, and there's no list of prices on a menu. Everything is negotiable in every way.
Liza Richardson
#46. When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.
Miranda Kenneally
#47. One whiff of a savory aromatic soup and appetites come to attention. The steaming fragrance of a tempting soup is a prelude to the goodness to come. An inspired soup puts family and guests in a receptive mood for enjoying the rest of the menu.
Louis Pullig De Gouy
#48. When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu
Guy Verhofstadt
#49. Nothing against comedy clubs, they work. But when you're sitting with a tablecloth and a candle and an appetizer menu, three-drink minimum, it can feel more like a dinner theater than a live experience.
Doug Stanhope
#50. What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll
a soft roll, not a hard roll
and one cup of cocoa; any attempt to alter this menu I regarded as a plot to poison me.
Esther Hautzig
#51. Did I really travel ten thousand miles to watch a naked girl read a menu? Yes, I supposed I had. This is the difference between sexual fantasy and sexual reality,
Dana Aaron Mather
#52. I was a little stunned that we didn't get a coloring book with this menu.
Nick Faldo
#53. Maybe that's why the Westmores never allowed any pets. Hard to keep them off the menu.
Jazz Feylynn
#54. Advice is like food, and teaching is a menu.
Rajneesh
#55. Even the hash brown section of the Waffle House menu reads like a serial killer-to-do list: Smothered, covered,diced, and scattered.
Jim Gaffigan
#56. QUICK TALK Kelis The 34-year-old singer first hit it big in 2003 with a single called "Milkshake." In the decade since, she's diversified her menu with a stint at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school, a hosting gig for the Cooking Channel and a new album, out April 22. It's titled
what else?
Food.
Anonymous
#57. It was the list of activities thing. Like the menu with price, only I'm not the restaurant; I'm the meal.
Damon Suede
#58. I'm very good at ordering off the menu and eating food that other people cook for me. My husband's a fantastic cook. I always come with a good appetite!
Kelly Rutherford
#59. I was 17 years old when I built the first store ... A very simple, basic store with a basic counter - not very much equipment, all purchased second-hand. And the menu was very simple.
Fred DeLuca
#60. Wait." I looked around. "How did you get here?"
"I ran."
I reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. Scrolling through his menu, I said, "You called a cab."
"But I ran to the cab when it got to the cemetery.
Darynda Jones
#61. I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.
Daniel Tosh
#62. In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.
Alice B. Toklas
#63. But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.
William Peter Blatty
#64. Planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.
Kathy Lette
#65. He started to look back, but he knew better. That fool always got eaten in the movies. And Nick didn't want to be on anyone's menu.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#66. I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.
Gayle King
#67. Would you like to see the menu?" he said, "or would you like meet the Dish of the Day?"
...
"Good evening," it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body?
Douglas Adams
#68. According to a new poll, Republicans are more likely to have a doughnut for breakfast, while Democrats prefer to eat bagels and croissants. While Independents are that annoying friend who's still looking at the menu after 15 minutes.
Jimmy Fallon
#69. Everyone goes through their stuff when they are growing up. It's all relative. Everyone has the same situations on their menu. We just make the choices in terms of what situations we're going to eat.
Gary Busey
#70. Muy Peligroso!" Bernie's choices had become as limited as the Taco Bell menu. Reason and blood had left the building, heading south, faster than reprobates to Florida." - Shark Fin Soup 2015
Fred Barnett
#71. The proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.
Pearl S. Buck
#72. Women's Magazine, "A study found that the act of physically closing your menu once you've decided what to order can make you feel more satisfied with your choice.
Jessica Knoll
#73. When I am up in Paris then the restaurant which has remained my favourite for the past decade is Guy Savoy. The menu is huge, sophisticated and very creative but I keep to simple choices.
Jean Reno
#74. Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.
Auguste Escoffier
#75. When I was in Turks & Caicos, a bug jumped out of my room service menu. That kind of freaked me out.
Jacquelyn Jablonski
#76. Just because the restaurant had Dynamite Shrimp on the menu, was that any reason for the place to blow up? (re April 15 release, Killer Kitchens
Jean Harrington
#77. Every time Salim saab comes to Bharatpur,' the Maharaja used to say plaintively, 'he takes two species off my menu.
Zafar Futehally
#78. Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for time, we'll use a can of tuna and a tomato for a first course. It's a question of choosing the right recipes for the rest of the menu.
Jacques Pepin
#79. If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu.
Lisa Edelstein
#80. I believe everything is about balance. I'm not 100% vegan, and obviously my fiance and my friends are not vegan, so I have to come up with a menu that will satisfy everybody.
Valentina Zelyaeva
#82. There's so much tragedy in people that we see every day that we don't have to make anything up. We don't have to invent anything. There are two items on the menu: comedy and tragedy.
Eric Drooker
#83. The question is: will I get used to a menu with kilojoules instead of calories? I mean, I don't think anyone even knows how many kilojoules are in a calorie. I had to break out a whiteboard this morning and do calculus just to figure out how many calories were in a glass of water Down Under.
Elle Lothlorien
#84. I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Warren Zevon
#85. My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've probably had to go through and raise every menu price now by 50 cents because it took away my profit. I just underestimated what it was going to cost.
Tom Douglas
#86. The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.
George Will
#87. Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.
Henry David Thoreau
#88. Criminal: You can suck my dick, motherfucker!
Detective Bridges: You suck mine! [shoves barrel of pistol in the Criminal's mouth] An' you get used to it, cause you get to Rykers you're gonna find a lot of dick on the goddamn menu! Now grunt twice for yes! You through bitchin'?
Garth Ennis
#89. Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.
Sally Schneider
#90. As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.
Jose Andres
#91. For those of you curious about the menu, I am drinking tear soup.
Hanif Kureishi
#92. You're like a box of chocolates with the menu missing - the card that tells you what they are. I never know what I'm going to get with you: a soft, creamy centre, something chewy, or an explosion of alcohol.
Linda Gillard
#93. I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu.
Tyler Perry
#94. In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
Ferran Adria
#95. The menu of my mother consisted of only two choices: Leave it or take it
Buddy Hackett
#96. I love Taco Bell. Whenever I go there, I could get anything on the menu and be totally happy.
Chris Massoglia
#97. The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and it's still as good as what you remember.
Mario Batali
#98. Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.
Murray Gell-Mann
#99. We make authentic Maharashtrian food at home. My mother supervises the preparation and the menu every day. She has been doing this since before I was born. I absolutely love the mutton sukka that she makes.
Riteish Deshmukh
#100. Pigpen and Dust chuckle, but the rest of the patrons take an intense interest in their food or menu.
Katie McGarry
